Walk of life and death the United States shaking the edge of Death Valley

Thinking back on it, I chose a wrong time to a wrong place: On a hot summer, I came to Death Valley, which all have to blame on my young and ignorant, how eager I was to use a ” earth-shattering, “the expedition to meet the thirties.

Death Valley is located in the southeast United States, California, and Nevada border, where the extreme temperatures of up to 56.7 ℃, annual average rainfall is only 46.768 mm slightly more than a bit of the Sahara. I choose Death Valley reason: there’s “Blackwater” is the lowest place in North America, which is located 282 feet below sea level, and only 100 miles away Whitney Mountain, has reached 14,494 feet above sea level, around the United States highest. Across the two poles of the age of 10 I had a dream: Why can not I directly from here “go” to there? Since so close.

Night last June, I was “black water” began the journey. Temperature is 32.2 ℃ can be quite cool. Most come to Death Valley because of evaporation of water at the moment and return to heaven, and only a little salt into the crust to go through constant, daily accumulation of condensation into the solid salt, refined, which can be 95% It refined table salt.

I cross the salt, marching toward the center of Death Valley. Every step, the foot of the crust can not afford to play more and more weight — I become thinner, white salt rubbed my ankle issue rustle of salt into a crust of salt powder first, then has become a hot mud, and put my boots out of shape baked, and then a layer of a layer to stick in it. Temperature makes unbearable, as if I had to stand on a volcano, from the “black water” to the bottom of the distance is very short, but to go there, I spent five or six hours.